Part IV — Where It Is All Headed
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Personal Application
This supplement is a heart-to-heart companion to the preceding two lessons — addressing your immediate personal needs and practical application of the truths studied.
Armageddon ends with Christ's return and the Millennium begins. A thousand years of direct divine government — Christ on the throne of David in Jerusalem, Satan bound, the earth transformed. This final supplement brings the entire fifty-two-lesson course to its conclusion: where history is going, what it means for you, and how you should live today in light of it.
If you'll just believe the truth about these doctrines, you'll never have to fear demons or go without these benefits.
If these blessings are for one person, they're for everyone, because God is no respecter of persons Romans 2:11. Think about it—would it be fair of God to give these blessings to some but not to all?
Could it really be possible that so many modern ministers are right when they teach that it's not God's will for everyone to receive these blessings? The minister quoted in the last supplement says, "The author does not limit the power of God, nor does he deny the fact that at times God does heal a Christian. We believe God heals whom He wills, when He wills, and how He wills... God does not always heal and raise up Christians who are sick."
What kind of reasoning is this? How could God be just and be no respecter of persons if He only decides to manifest healing at certain times for certain people? How could you ever be sure you're living at that particular moment when God feels gracious enough to do what He's promised—what He promises to do for all and what Christ died to freely give to all?
How can you know if you're a special pet of God or if you belong to some exclusive class to whom God will "at times" feel merciful? Such reasoning and contradictions to the Scriptures aren't worthy of an intelligent person's consideration, to say the least.
The times of God's mercy have stretched from the fall of man until now, and they'll continue until the end of the Millennium when people will never be sick again. In other words, as long as there's a sick person, God's mercy will be extended to them if they believe the gospel and have faith in God to heal them.
God's salvation and compassion cover every human need now and forever. We saw in Lesson Fourteen that God has healed people in all past ages—before and after the cross—and that God has never turned down one person who came to Him in faith according to the gospel. We've seen that in the New Testament, there's provision for God's blessings for body, soul, and spirit—provision for prosperity, forgiveness, healing, and deliverance from all the works of the devil.
Yes, it's true that God heals whom He wills, when He wills, and how He wills—but God's program is written out in black and white. Scripture plainly tells us that He wills to prosper, heal, and save all people here and now who will believe in Him.
It's revealed that the time is now that God wills to bless people. It's also made clear how He wills to help those in need. His program works through faith in the gospel, in the atonement and work of Christ on the cross, and in the resurrection from the dead.
Paul said by the Holy Ghost, "He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things" Romans 8:32. We can therefore boldly and scripturally declare that all things are ours here and now.
What good would a gospel be that provided benefits for people in the past and future but left out those living now? The Bible proves that any religion teaching there are no benefits for people of the present age—but that such benefits were experienced in the past and will be enjoyed in the future—is from the devil himself. It's been the program of demons in every generation to rob people of the blessings God has provided for all alike.
The great hindrance to any blessing of God is uncertainty in the mind and heart concerning God's will. Some people raise the question of whether or not it's God's will for them to be saved, to be healed, or to prosper in material things. Others question whether it's God's time to bless them. Still others question whether such blessings would even be best for them.
All such questioning and uncertainty will rob you of the benefits that are freely promised to all alike. How can you have faith if you're uncertain about God's will or if there's any wavering at all?
God has definitely told us that no one should expect an answer where there's wavering faith. This is stated in James 1:4-8:
"If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways."